Sex, steam, and steel: Ani Niow’s SteamVibe
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Ani Niow (steamfuck.me) has created the most perfect marriage of the above, by creating the SteamVibe, a hand-machined steam-powered vibrator. The piece was machined out of a solid hunk of stainless steel (no easy task), and fitted with the world’s itty-bittiest Tesla Turbine (if you’ve never heard of a Tesla Turbine, check it out). It’s truly a wonderful bit of engineering- the Tesla turbine is hard to create even in larger sizes, and this one is fitted into the base of the shaft. It uses a set of smooth disks in it’s mechanism- and in a stroke of brilliance, Ani used high RPM dremel disks.
The whole she-bang is powered with steam from an as-yet-to-be-completed external boiler.
It’s is luscious itself as an object. It’s heavy in your hands (or, I assume, other places), and cold- until you turn the steam on.It’s sleek and damn sexy- 50s retro-futurism, android-porno-scifi, and steampunk. Also, shiny.
More photos on my Flickr stream.
